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Reclaim the Road women’s bike ride

27/02/2010
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Reclaim the Road women’s bike ride

On March 7, the LCC presents the annual women’s bike ride to mark International Women’s Day. Female-focused, but not exclusively for women, the ride will lead you around some of London’s best routes, encompassing landmarks which have particular significance to the fairer sex. route – http://tinyurl.com/reclaimtheroad-route We’ll be finishing up at the Shortwave Cinema in Bermondsey...
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Bike week 2010

25/02/2010
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Bike week 2010

There had been some confusion about when the Bike Weeks when be in 2010. I think that bikeweek.org.uk have now set it in stone, 19-27 of June 2010. This year it is sponsored by EdF and they have set up a team called Team Green Britain. Get greener together You can only do so much on...
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How to promote cycling

24/02/2010
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Over on copenhagenize.com they have post about how other cities are promoting cycling. I totally agree with them that the way New York are “promoting” cycling in their ad Look, is just wrong and is very linked to car-centric fearmongering and this will NOT get more on their bikes. The others they list on copenhagenize are...
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New York New York

06/01/2010
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I hope that I’m allowed a bit or artistic licensing from old blue eyes, and re-write his song New York, New York. “If they can make it there, Then we make it anywhere, It’s up to you – New York, New York.” I know, I will not give up my day job :) Though...
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Beauty and the Bike

23/12/2009
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Now this is a great project and a very uplifting short film, Beauty and the Bike. If they can get teenage girls to start to cycle again in Darlington, why not elsewhere here in the UK. They are right teenagers all over Europe use the bicycle to get around. When I grew up there was...
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Take the 2 mile bicycle challenge

19/12/2009
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Take the 2 mile bicycle challenge

I fell over this article on Planet Green the other day, Take the 2 Mile Bicycle Challenge. Which states that 40 percent of everyday travel in the U.S. are trips of 2 miles or fewer, which got me thinking what about here in London. I live in SW6 and within a 5 miles radius I...
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Start riding now

12/12/2009
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Today I read this article over on the Telegraph, Copenhagen climate conference Danes launch campaign to get the world cycling. And it got me wondering why the UK has such a hard time in get on their bikes. The first thing people over here think is that it is dangerous and it is going to...
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Self-Powered Laser For Safer Night Cycling

05/11/2009
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Self-Powered Laser For Safer Night Cycling

This is a self powered laser light, the battery that is recharged via a dynamo and this is what it does … The laser draws an ellipse of light that is sensitive to anything crossing the perimeter. If a car comes too close, the light becomes red and all the horns will go off –...
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Recycle your bicycle

03/11/2009
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Recycle your bicycle

Today when I went out with our recycle box to our recycle bin, I found a bicycle inside. Well it was a classic BSO and in bad nick. Unfortunately, your LBS will not take this bicycle in and give it a new life. It will simply cost too much to get it back on the...
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How we as cyclist are seen

01/11/2009
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How we as cyclist are seen

The fella on ibikelondon has a valid point in his article, Public face of cycling. We now have an image of cyclist which either scared others off the idea of riding a bicycle. Trying to get new people to start cycling is hard work, since the image of a cyclist is either a tree...
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Kick Ball Pedal Bike

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I’m not a big fan of football but this does sound like fun and a long day. But you can join just part of...
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Coolclasp – the greatest strap in the world.

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A mega-useful gizmo for cyclists and non-cyclists alike! Does your home lack essential bike storage space? Do you often wish for a handy strap...
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Fill that hole update

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11 days ago I filled in a request to fill a hole on Hortensia Road, SW10. Today I cycled up the road and lo...
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Old boy racers get on their bikes

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So what is stopping you ? “Every week on the roads around Glasgow a group of men aged between 65 and 89 take to...
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Creative cycling

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Trying to follow a route on the London Cycle Network(LCN) or National Cycle Network(NCN) you have to put on your thinking hat. Because you...
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